On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com > wrote:
> How would this compare to Erlang? > > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC >> >> 50+ cores?! Clojure will leave every other language in the dust on >> something like that, thanks to its inherently scaleable concurrency >> constructs. Try writing a 50-threaded Java application without getting >> deadlocks all over the place, or cheating and using very coarse-grained >> locks (have fun with the task manager showing 2% CPU utilization when your >> app is running full-bore!). >> >> If big, 32-bit addressing spaces were what made automatic memory >> management really begin to come into its own (and with it, Java), then it's >> doubtless 50-core machines that will make automatic concurrency management >> really begin to come into its own. >> > Erlang might also do well on such a machine. The actor model likely involves more communication among the cores to get full utilization, but then, the page describes some sort of message-passing system among the cores on MIC, so ... -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
